Heating Coil - Electric

 

Coil:Heating:Electric

 

 

Used in:

 

  • Air Handling Units
  • Demand loops of Dual duct systems
  • PTAC
  • PTHP
  • Unitary Heat Cool
  • Unitary Heat Pump

 

The electric heating coil is a simple capacity model with a user-defined efficiency. In most cases, the efficiency for the electric coil will be 100%. Depending on where it is used this coil may be either temperature or capacity controlled. If used in the air loop simulation it will be controlled to a specified temperature scheduled from the Setpoint Manager. If it is used in zone equipment, it will be controlled from the zone thermostat by meeting the zone demand.

General

Name

A unique auto-generated name for the coil.

Type

The type is fixed as:

 

 

In Generic AHUs and ADUs it will also be possible to select 1-Hot water or 3-Fuel as the heating coil type, in which case a Water heating coil or Fuel heating coil is used instead.

Efficiency

This is user-inputted efficiency (fraction, not percent) and can account for any loss. In most cases for the electric coil, this will be 100% (enter a value of 1).

Nominal capacity

This is the maximum capacity of the coil (in W). This controlled coil will only provide the needed capacity to meet the control criteria whether it is temperature or capacity controlled. This field is autosizable.

Operation

Available schedule

The schedule that denotes whether the heating coil can run during a given time period. A schedule value greater than 0 (usually 1 is used) indicates that the coil can be on during a given time period. A value less than or equal to 0 (usually 0 is used) denotes that the coil must be off.

Heating Coil - Electric Outputs

HVAC,Sum,Heating Coil Energy[J]

HVAC,Average,Heating Coil Rate[W]

HVAC,Sum,Heating Coil Electric Consumption [J]

HVAC,Average,Heating Coil Electric Power [W]

Heating Coil Energy (J)

Heating Coil Energy is the total amount of heat transfer taking place in the coil at the operating conditions.

Heating Coil Rate[W]

Heating Coil Rate is the Rate of heat transfer taking place in the coil at the operating conditions. The units are (J/sec) or Watts.

Heating Coil Electric Consumption [J]

Heating Coil electric consumption after the efficiency of the coil has been taken into account in Joules for the timestep reported.

Heating Coil Electric Power [W]

This field is the average Heating Coil electric power after the efficiency of the coil has been taken into account in Watts for the timestep reported.